Buried Alive in the Blues

Catalogue No: EE391399

Chicago Blues Reunion is a band made up of some of the great blues players who gathered in Chicago in the sixties and seventies. Nick Gravenites played with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Electric Flag and produced for Janis Joplin. Tracy Nelson was the singer in Mother Earth. Harvey Mandel played guitar in Canned Heat and John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. Sam Lay was the drummer with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Bob Dylan. The DVD combines full length tracks from the band’s 2005 concert with interviews telling the story of Blues music in Chicago from Muddy Waters onwards with extensive contributions from Buddy Guy and B.B. King and loads of archive footage.